GamersGate: Thanksgiving Sale
To celebrate Thanksgiving, GamersGate will be offering four new deals every day until January!
Steam Autumn Sale
This year’s Steam Autumn Sale has now started!
Today’s deals include XCOM: Enemy Unknown for £20.09, Darksiders II for £11.89, Age of Empires III Complete for £7.49, Terraria for £2.03, The Walking Dead for £10.49 and Magic The Gathering: Duels of the Planewalkers, for £3.49.
There are also a number of Flash Sales, on offer for a shorter time, and a separate listing for featured Indie games.
The Autumn Sale will run until the 26th November, with new deals each day.
Ubisoft Launches Uplay PC
Ubisoft has now launched Uplay PC, their own digital distribution platform. Uplay PC will sell games and connect to the existing Uplay community, and the new Uplay PC app will act as a launcher for individual games as well as managing friends lists and chat.
To try and attract gamers to the service, Ubisoft are currently offering a number of PC games for £1, with daily deals continuing throughout Gamescom.
Are you Serious?
Steam keep on making great offers, and I keep on taking them up. This time it was Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter..
Via Steam, there are a few achievements I decided I’d aim for. Not sure how the “I am Invincible” achievement will go – complete the game in single player without firing a single bullet or shell – but some of the others won’t be too hard.
After a bit of a run in the single player, I went for some co-op with a friend. I was pleased to find that you have infinite retries in co-op, as it allows for a more crazed game without having to restart levels.
We also discovered that you can climb on top of other characters, and for a short time, even walk with them standing on your head.
This did lead to a friend trapping himself though..
After climbing on my head to get on an otherwise inaccessible ledge, he went through the door up there, and then found it wouldn’t open to allow him back through! Some doors won’t open unless you’ve dealt with whatever is in that section.. We were able to pick him up again, after clearing the next room 🙂
In this game there are also a good number of secrets, and there is an achievement for finding 50 of these. Let’s just say I’m quite determined to find them all 😉